Is Missouri part of "The South"?

[cristit14]

The Missouri compromise allowed the US to claim Alaska as our 57th state.

Woah, I must have missed something. We did we get 7 more states?

 

[MattsPrincess]

Not even a little. To me "the south" is like, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, etc.

Then again, I don't feel Michigan is really in the "mid-west" either. I consider myself as being from southern Canada.

 

[Conservative Hippie]

Missouri is definitely not part of the south! A better question would be, is Miami part of the south????

 

[Disney Doll]

I always puzzle when reading my "Southern Living" magazine, which includes Maryland and Washington, D.C. as part of the South. I don't consider them to be part of the South.

I usually cal them the eastern seaboard.

My sister-in-law lives in Missouri and she considers it the midwest.

 

[Jennasis]

Floride isn't "the South" either. At least nothing south of Jacksonville.

 

[aprilgail2]

AFAIC it's part of the mid-west. Not the south.

We don't claim it down here...

Well we sure don't claim it up here!!!!

 

[golfgal]

Ok, but the talk with a southern "drawl" it's the south--well, I suppose pretty much everything is "south' from here

 

[Jennasis]

Ok, but the talk with a southern "drawl" it's the south--well, I suppose pretty much everything is "south' from here

Now now. You Minn-uh-sooo-tans have an accent to you know.

 

[golfgal]

Now now. You Minn-uh-sooo-tans have an accent to you know.

Hey now--we don't have an accent-the rest of the country does

Listen to the national news broadcasters-they all learn to talk "Minnesotan"

 

[LuLuO]

We are part of the Mid-West.

 

[palmtreegirl]

Floride isn't "the South" either. At least nothing south of Jacksonville.

That's actually not true, where I live it's definitely "the south". Natives even have strong southern accents.

 

[Jennasis]

That's actually not true, where I live it's definitely "the south". Natives even have strong southern accents.

Nope sorry. Like the the US did with the Native Americans, the northerners have co-opted your land and claimed it as their own. Florida belongs to the north now.

 

[Conservative Hippie]

That's actually not true, where I live it's definitely "the south". Natives even have strong southern accents.

I think everything north of the glades is still "the south." Everything else is "south Florida," NOT "THE south!"

 

[bumbershoot]

Missouri is definitely not part of the south! A better question would be, is Miami part of the south????

I personally have never known anyone from Florida who considered themselves to be in the South.

Of course, I have not met everyone who lives there. But I do have family in Orlando, Tampa, and Port Orange, and my mom lived in Miami for 3 years.

Ok, but the talk with a southern "drawl" it's the south--well, I suppose pretty much everything is "south' from here

Well if we're going by accents, every state has a bit of California in them, because that accent has spread like wildfire. I remember being in Spartanburg at a bar, listening to a group of LOCAL college students who were at a Grateful Dead cover band show, with this CA accent, deadhead/stoner "accent", with South Carolina spread through it....possibly the strangest way of speaking I've ever heard, and that includes the South African accent!

 

[punkin]

Missouri has St. Louis, the "gateway to the West," so definitely not "south". I would say mid-west.

Delaware and Maryland are Mid-Atlantic, but can be considered "south" since they are south of the Mason-Dixon line and were slave holding states before the Civil War. However, they were Union states during the war, which may allow you to consider them "north." Of course then you'd have to consider West Virginia as "north" which culturally it clearly isn't. I vote for "south" on both of these.

Florida is definitely "south" until you get to about West Palm Beach (on the Atlantic side). From there on south, it is definitely the sixth borough of NYC and therefore North. Gulf Coast and Central Florida is pretty much "south."

 

[Conservative Hippie]

I personally have never known anyone from Florida who considered themselves to be in the South.

Of course, I have not met everyone who lives there. But I do have family in Orlando, Tampa, and Port Orange, and my mom lived in Miami for 3 years.



Well if we're going by accents, every state has a bit of California in them, because that accent has spread like wildfire. I remember being in Spartanburg at a bar, listening to a group of LOCAL college students who were at a Grateful Dead cover band show, with this CA accent, deadhead/stoner "accent", with South Carolina spread through it....possibly the strangest way of speaking I've ever heard, and that includes the South African accent!

I've lived in Central FL for 4 years, and I think it's semi-south. I'm from Alabama originally, so I know what the real south is like! But down in south FL, they should be their own state!

 

[KristaTX]

I've never thought of Missouri as southern. I think of it more like Kansas and Iowa.

Not even a little. To me "the south" is like, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, etc.

I'm not arguing with you, but Missouri and Kentucky are mostly at the same latitude.

It's always puzzled me, though, how Ohio can seem so northern, but just to the south of it is Kentucky. And Kentucky seems so southern . But I've never actually been to Kentucky, and only to Ohio once.

 

[golfgal]

I've never thought of Missouri as southern. I think of it more like Kansas and Iowa.



I'm not arguing with you, but Missouri and Kentucky are mostly at the same latitude.

It's always puzzled me, though, how Ohio can seem so northern, but just to the south of it is Kentucky. And Kentucky seems so southern . But I've never actually been to Kentucky, and only to Ohio once.

I think that is what it is for me too-going to Missouri, the people, the culture seems more southern there and not at all Midwestern. Missouri is more "South" to me then Florida .

 

[ilovemk76]

Woah, I must have missed something. We did we get 7 more states?

They are secret and only some of us know where they are. Can't reveal the secret.

 

[ChrisFL]

When you live in Florida, you have to go North to reach the "South"...once you get north of Gainesville or west toward Tallahassee, you're reaching the "South"

I've lived between Tampa and Orlando my whole life and never considered it part of the "South"...its either transplanted northerns, or transplanted Caribbean inhabitants